Working is a funny thing!

And I mean "funny" in the strange interpretation of the word, meaning that we have this thing that we spend potentially a quarter to a third of our Lifetime on, and yet we have typically no say over doing our work at a time that suits us.

For the vast majority of us, we just show up and do the work when we're told to... at a time that is convenient for the company who is writing the paychecks.

I suppose I can see that there is a fairness in that on some level, but it doesn't necessarily mean that aforesaid company is getting us at the time when we are the most productive.

Maybe they don't actually care about that.

We all pretty much have our natural cycles and rhythms in life, just like some people are morning people and other people are a night owls. The efficiency with which we work at something, along with our ability to concentrate, works pretty much along the lines of those cycles.

Years of being self-employed has taught me that I do my best work from when I get up in the morning till about midday and then I'm pretty much useless from that point forward till about 10:00 or 11:00 at night when I get my second wind and can be really productive for another 2 or 3 hours.

For the most part, we just don't have jobs that are set up to operate on such a flex schedule.

The thing that's a bit ironic about it is the fact that much of the work we end up doing isn't really time constrained. The fact that there is somebody writing a piece of paper that says that the work must be done between 9:00 and 5:00 is necessarily directly tied to the reality of when the work needs to be done.

In most cases, there are deadlines and dates by which something has to be done, but but that operates completely independently of when we could do the tasks that lead to the completed project.

I learned this when I worked as an independent contractor to the tech industry, and I was able to (mostly) complete my projects whenever I wanted to, as long as I met certain "waypoints" and the final deadline.

I ended up doing absolutely nothing on a great many afternoons!

But the upside is that I learned a lot about when I was most effective at actually getting my work DONE.

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